passenger

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈpæsənd͡ʒəɹ/

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Noun

passenger (plural passengers)

1. One who rides or travels in a train, motor vehicle, boat, ship, ferry, hovercraft, aircraft, etc., but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
2. (falconry) A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.

Translations

one who rides or travels in a train, motor vehicle, boat, ship, ferry, hovercraft, aircraft, etc.

• Afrikaans: passasier
• Arabic: مسافر (ar) (musāfir) m, سافر (ar) (sāfir) m, راكب (ar) (rākib) m
• Armenian: ուղևոր (hy) (uġevor)
• Catalan: passatger m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乘客 (cmn) (chéngkè)

• Czech: cestující (cs) m
• Danish: passager (da) c
• Dutch: passagier (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: pasaĝero (eo)
• Estonian: sõitja (et)
• Finnish: matkustaja (fi)
• French: passager (fr) m
• German: Passagier (de) m, Fahrgast (de) m
• Greek: επιβάτης (el) (epivátis) m, (idiomatic) αργόμισθος (el) (argómisthos) m
• Hungarian: utas (hu)
• Italian: passeggero (it) m
• Japanese: 乗客 (ja) (じょうきゃく, jōkyaku)
• Korean: 여객 (ko) (yeogaek) (旅客 (ko)), 승객 (ko) (seunggaek) (乘客 (ko))
• Latin: vector (la) m

• Luxembourgish: Passagéier (lb) m
• Macedonian: патник (mk) (pátnik) m
• Maori: pāhihi (mi)
• Polish: pasażer (pl) m
• Portuguese: passageiro (pt) m
• Romanian: călător (ro), pasager (ro)
• Russian: пассажир (ru) (passažír) m, пассажирка (ru) (passažírka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: путник (sh) m, путница (sh) f

  Roman: putnik (sh) m, putnica (sh) f

• Spanish: pasajero (es) m
• Swahili: abiria (sw)
• Swedish: passagerare (sv) c
• Turkish: yolcu (tr)
• Vietnamese: hành khách (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) tävan (vo), (♂) hitävan (vo), (♀) jitävan (vo), (sea, ♂♀) melatävan (vo), (sea, ♂) melahitävan (vo), (sea, ♀) melajitävan (vo), (ship, ♂♀) nafatävan (vo), (ship, ♂) nafahitävan (vo), (ship, ♀) nafajitävan (vo)

young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year

• Greek: εκτοπιστής (el) (ektopistís) m

Verb

passenger (third-person singular simple present passengers, present participle passengering, simple past and past participle passengered)

1. (intransitive) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

See also

• driver
• rider